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...parent company, General Electric, had a "general preference for lawyers," Rowe explains, and he got an offer...
...News article made another noteworthy observation: that "Ivy League students...have remarkably stable families." An astounding 86 percent of Ivy Leaguers were raised in two parent homes, strongly implying that our opportunity to study at Harvard may be linked to the stability of our home lives. Regardless of the make-up of our individual families, our parents sacrificed much of their own happiness to provide for our education, and even the financial aid that many of us depend upon is a direct result of someone else's altruistic desire to give up part of their own pleasure for our enrichment...
...death of Habibie's real father in 1950. Suharto, a military officer, befriended the family and closed the old man's eyes on his deathbed. Habibie, then 13, has revered his protector ever since. In his autobiography, Suharto wrote of the protege that he "regards me as his own parent. He always asks for my guidance and takes down notes on [my] philosophy...
...prisoners, were given offices and mobile phones in the hope that they would begin worrying about funding targets, not bombing targets. In central Londonderry, every other street corner seems to house the offices of some worthy center dispensing advice, trying to foster peace. Teresa McKeever, the manager of a parent-and-toddler association in Creggan, a Catholic district in Londonderry, brings mothers and children from her area to join in a weekend in the country with mothers and kids from Tullyally, a Protestant area. The talk is generally nonpolitical, but, says McKeever, "it's really all about the future...
...five, I was abducted first by one parent and then, when found, by the other. Dragged from home to home, country to country, state to state, I was hidden for years before the FBI found me. I was then returned to the original abductor, who forever vilified my other parent. As a result, I am estranged from both parents. Having gone through it, I can't say if it was worse to be abducted or to be found. I can say the abduction indelibly marked me. I beg parents who contemplate kidnapping their children to reconsider. Abducting a child often...